dc.contributor.author | Mathur, Navdeep | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-21T12:27:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-05-21T12:27:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 01/12/2012 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Mathur, N. (2012). On the Sabarmati Riverfront: Urban Planning as Totalitarian Governance in Ahmedabad. Economic And Political Weekly, 47(47/48), 64-75. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 00129976 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11718/13623 | |
dc.description.abstract | The official narrative presents Ahmedabad as a pioneer
in urban transformation in India. This paper questions
whether these claims engage with the experiences of
the urban poor in Ahmedabad by examining processes
around the Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project.
Highlighted here are the roles played by the architectural
consultancy, city administrators and political managers,
as well as community groups, civil society and academic
institutions. The efficiency of the administration showed
an active anti-poor stance in the court proceedings and
in the violence of actual evictions and post-eviction
suffering. The evidence presented here also shows how
“world-class” urban planning has facilitated yet another
blatant instance of “accumulation by dispossession”
via the flow of the Sabarmati. | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY | en_US |
dc.subject | Sabarmati Riverfront | en_US |
dc.title | On the Sabarmati riverfront: urban planning as totalitarian governance in Ahmedabad | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |